What’s the difference between a Smurf account and a naturally good player?
Meaning, they play COD, BF, your typical FPS player, and start fresh in overwatch?
How can you differentiate the two?
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One is a low level account the other is not.
If you mean a good new player, new players may have good aim but are not familiar with positioning, interactions between heroes, shortcuts and other OW exclusive stuff.
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The smurf could be a low level account too… Do you know what a smurf is?
This was not what he proposed.
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The first row was clarification based on the title.
The second one is exactly what he asks.
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A smurf already knows the mechanics of the game and knows what hero will counter him and adapt to the enemy.
Unless he’s a Widowmaker one-trick.
Or a genji.
Or McCree.
Soldier 76.
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There is absolutely no difference between a smurf account and a fresh naturally good player.
The scenario he painted is:
Two low level/new accounts
Both play at an equally impressive level
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It is right there m8:
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The only difference is a smurf is in a lower rank intentionally.
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This isn’t really a good answer tbh
Sometimes new players have better positioning than smurfs tbh lol
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One intentionally plays at a lower MMR or Rank in order to stomp inferior players to the ground because they can’t do the same at their rank (smurf). The naturally good player is just playing the games Match-making gives him and is trying his best to win them all.
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a smurf will know how to abuse rollouts, map geometry, and advanced techs for multiple heroes
a gifted fps player will take 1v1s and win most of the time, but won’t know how to path properly, no techs that aren’t intuitive to figure out within seconds, and overall won’t understand the macro of how the game is played
even shroud placed in plat as one of the most mechanically gifted cod players in the world, and that just tells me that aim isn’t really something that matters until you get to the top of the ladder
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Things like rank are obvious but also you can have game specific knowledge. This is most obvious with a hero like Genji as his skill set isn’t really found in other games. If someone comes in playing 2 ranks higher on say 76 that could just be talent from other games, Genji or Hammond, that’s a smurf.
It’s not just heroes either. I mentioned 76, as his kit can be easy to pick up and master just of other game experience. You can tell a 76 smurf though if they have positioning, map awareness, and hero interaction based skills that would only come from playing OW. If their an aim god and know powerful flank routes, intricate hero matchups and counter play them smurf, not skilled in other games.
Computer authentication with Tinman.Api It removes the guess work.
Low lvl account that is rulling an entire lobby, name full of special characters, social skills of a lobotomized chimp… that’s a smurf.
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Naturally good player is someone who will relatively quickly climb ranks, like rank per season of gaming.
Smurf is a new account bellow level 100 in high ranks like diamond and above. If it’s below 50, you are certainly facing 4k+ player. People with level 80-100 in diamond are usually just low masters and aren’t so much better than the rest of the lobby. But if we are talking about level 35 DPS player you probably can concede on the spot, because he will dominate that game. Or level 35 any role, really. The lower level the worse it will be, because it means he is winning everything on the way to your match.
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One is new to the game and the other made a new account specifically to get easier games.
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A naturally good player isnt gonna understand more than half the game. Having good aim does not in any capacity carry you in this game. People meme that there are a bunch of mechanical gods in masters because thats about as far as you can go with god aim alone lol.
Knowing team comps, hero synergies, varying playstyles depending on both teams comps, ability tracking, ult tracking… these things will take you further than what good aim alone can.
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Have you seen shroud try overwatch? Hes a god aim player, yet he got wrekt by plat players lol.
Skill dont really transfer from other games in ow.
So, if you see a really good player with a low level, hes a smurf.
One will stomp their way to masters or beyond. The other will get stuck in plat-low diamond tops.
In OW gamesense is and always has been far more important than aim. Gamesense takes time to develop and isn’t carried over.
Smurfs know exactly how the game works, how the Heroes interact, etc.
The only thing good players from other FPS games have going for them is some translatable mechanical skill.